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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3872)	9/17/2001 1:16:35 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 23908

And you don't see me out there blaming the US for the numerous massacres that have occurred around the world. I don't know what kind of perfect world you seemingly live in, but the one I'm in is a brutal one... My world is one where evil is wrought every day on its own, WITHOUT assistance from the USA. And the best one can do it try to balance these evils and leverage them one against the other, with the effort of providing a buffer and hedge against the enemies of the US. It's like being a shop owner with several stores around the city, who's being assaulted by any number of gangs trying to rob him.. So he hires a couple of super tough, ugly, smelly security guards to protect each shop while he's away doing other things.... But then later on he finds out that one of his guards beats his kids every night and smacks his wife around, while another guard is a part-time drug dealer... But he looks around for someone else to guard his shops, but finally realizes that he can't find anyone tougher than these guys to keep his interests secure against the thugs who have been robbing him. So what does he do?? Does he fire them and permit the gangs to rob him and murder his employees?? Or does he hope that he can ultimately change these low-brow guards he's hired to one day stop being so brutal with their own families?? Now maybe you don't understand something explained at such a "dick and jane" level, Thomas... But the US didn't create this ugly, brutal world... We can try to change it, but we only have so much control... Especially when these regimes are just as comfortable being totalitarian, as they are authoritarian... The power still resides within the previleged few who repress the rights of the many. Can you only imagine if Indonesia had gone communist and the East Timorese tried to secede under THEIR rule??? Not a chance.... Hawkmoon.